WNY Peace Center is honoring and partnering with Stitch Buffalo for this year’s Women’s March 2022. May is International Victorious Women’s Month, along with the WNY Women’s March. It is the perfect time to shed light on the victorious women of Stitch Buffalo, and all the good they do for their local and worldwide communities.
Amanda Gorman is a 24-year-old poet, and the youngest poet to speak at an inauguration in U.S. history. She graduated from Harvard University and she is a social justice advocate whose poems highlight issues of oppression, feminism, race, and marginalized groups of people. She advocates for social change through poetry.
All in all, the people are Rwanda are still healing and grieving from the genocide that happened in their country. They are awaiting justice to be served on those responsible, they are trying to find peace in their lives by making the best out of a tragic situation, and a lot of them have turned into social justice advocates in order to ensure nothing like this happens again.